UK Prime Ministers: Classified

This page lists every UK prime minister in chronological order, giving the party they belonged to (where appropriate) and the years they served. It also gives other significant facts (in the Notes column). For No. 37, and from No. 39 onwards, the final column (in the rows for their final terms only) gives the year in which they died, for those that are deceased.

The second table gives the first and last prime ministers for every king and queen (since the office of prime minister was created).

For other details about individual prime ministers, see UK Prime Ministers: Details. Also see UK Prime Ministers: Titles.

Main Table

		Name	Party	Dates	Notes and (from No. 37 onwards) Death
1		Robert WALPOLE		1721–1742	Longest–serving (21 years)
2		Earl of WILMINGTON		1742–1743	Unmarried
3		Henry PELHAM		1743–1746
4		Earl of BATH		1746
3		Henry PELHAM		1746–1754
5		Duke of NEWCASTLE		1754–1756
6		Duke of DEVONSHIRE		1756–1757
5		Duke of NEWCASTLE		1757–1762
7		Earl of BUTE	Tory	1762–1763	First Tory
8		George GRENVILLE	Whig	1763–1765	First Whig
9		Marquess of ROCKINGHAM	Whig	1765–1766
10		Earl of CHATHAM	Whig	1766–1768	William Pitt the Elder
11		Duke of GRAFTON	Whig	1768–1770
12		Lord NORTH	Tory	1770–1782
9		Marquess of ROCKINGHAM	Whig	1782
13		Earl of SHELBURNE	Whig	1782–1783
14		Duke of PORTLAND	Coalition	1783
15		William PITT (the Younger)	Tory	1783–1801	Unmarried
16		Henry ADDINGTON	Tory	1801–1804
15		William PITT (the Younger)	Tory	1804–1806	2nd longest–serving (18 years in total)
17		Baron GRENVILLE	Whig	1806–1807
14		Duke of PORTLAND	Tory	1807–1809
18		Spencer PERCEVAL	Tory	1809–1812	Assassinated 11 May 1812
19		Earl of LIVERPOOL	Tory	1812–1827	3rd longest–serving (15 years)
20		George CANNING	Tory	1827	Second shortest–serving (119 days)
21		Viscount GODERICH	Tory	1827–1828	Third shortest–serving (130 days)
22		Duke of WELLINGTON	Tory	1828–1830
23		Earl GREY	Whig	1830–1834
24		Viscount MELBOURNE	Whig	1834
22		Duke of WELLINGTON	Tory	1834	Last Tory
25		Sir Robert PEEL	Conservative	1834–1835	First Conservative
24		Viscount MELBOURNE	Whig	1835–1841
25		Sir Robert PEEL	Conservative	1841–1846
26		Lord RUSSELL	Whig	1846–1852	Last Whig
27		Earl of DERBY	Conservative	1852
28		Earl of ABERDEEN	Peelite	1852–1855
29		Viscount PALMERSTON	Liberal	1855–1858	First Liberal
27		Earl of DERBY	Conservative	1858–1859
29		Viscount PALMERSTON	Liberal	1859–1865	Last to die in office
26		Lord RUSSELL	Liberal	1865–1866
27		Earl of DERBY	Conservative	1866–1868
30		Benjamin DISRAELI	Conservative	1868
31		William Ewart GLADSTONE	Liberal	1868–1874	Longest–serving Lib
30		Benjamin DISRAELI	Conservative	1874–1880
31		William Ewart GLADSTONE	Liberal	1880–1885
32		Marquess of SALISBURY	Conservative	1885–1886
31		William Ewart GLADSTONE	Liberal	1886
32		Marquess of SALISBURY	Conservative	1886–1892
31		William Ewart GLADSTONE	Liberal	1892–1894	13 years (4th–longest serving)
33		Earl of ROSEBERY	Liberal	1894–1895
32		Marquess of SALISBURY	Conservative	1895–1902	Last bearded PM
34		Arthur James BALFOUR	Conservative	1902–1905	Unmarried
35		Sir Henry CAMPBELL–BANNERMAN	Liberal	1905–1908	First to be known officially as PM; resigned due to ill health
36		Herbert Henry ASQUITH	Liberal	1908–1915	Last PM of a Liberal govt
36		Herbert Henry ASQUITH	Coalition	1915–1916
37		David LLOYD GEORGE	Coalition	1916–1922	Last Liberal to be PM		1945
38		Andrew Bonar LAW	Conservative	1922–1923	Fourth shortest–serving (211 days)
39		Stanley BALDWIN	Conservative	1923–1924
40		James Ramsay MACDONALD	Labour	1924	First Labour
39		Stanley BALDWIN	Conservative	1924–1929
40		James Ramsay MACDONALD	Labour	1929–1931
40		James Ramsay MACDONALD	Coalition	1931–1935			1937
39		Stanley BALDWIN	Coalition	1935–1937			1949
41		Neville CHAMBERLAIN	Coalition	1937–1940			1940
42		Winston L. Spencer CHURCHILL	Coalition	1940–1945
42		Winston L. Spencer CHURCHILL	Conservative	1945
43		Clement R. ATLEE	Labour	1945–1951			1967
42		Winston L. Spencer CHURCHILL	Conservative	1951–1955			1965
44		Sir Anthony EDEN	Conservative	1955–1957			1977
45		Maurice Harold MacMILLAN	Conservative	1955–1963			1986
46		Sir Alec DOUGLAS–HOME	Conservative	1963–1964			1995 (Oct)
47		James Harold WILSON	Labour	1964–1970
48		Edward Richard George HEATH	Conservative	1970–1974	Unmarried		2005 (July)
47		James Harold WILSON	Labour	1974–1976			1995 (May)
49		Leonard James CALLAGHAN	Labour	1976–1979			2005 (March)
50		Margaret Hilda THATCHER	Conservative	1979–1990	Longest–serving Con		2013
51		John MAJOR	Conservative	1990–1997
52		Anthony Charles Linton BLAIR	Labour	1997–2007	Longest–serving Lab
53		James Gordon Brown	Labour	2007–2010
54		David William Donald CAMERON	Coalition	2010–15
54		David William Donald CAMERON	Conservative	2015–16
55		Theresa Mary MAY	Conservative	2016–19
56		Alexander Boris de Pfeffel JOHNSON	Conservative	2019–22
57		Mary Elizabeth TRUSS	Conservative	2022	Shortest–serving (49 days)
58		Rishi SUNAK	Conservative	2022–	First from an ethnic minority; first Hindu

Titles

Up until the end of the 19th century, the majority of Britain's Prime Ministers were members of the aristocracy, and thus the House of Lords. It's not unheard of to be given the name of one of these Prime Ministers and asked for his title.

This table does not include those whose titles included their surnames: Lord (Frederick) North, Baron (William) Grenville, Earl (Charles) Grey, or Lord (John) Russell.

	Name	Dates		Title
2	Spencer Compton	1742–3		Earl of WILMINGTON
4	William Pulteney	1746		Earl of BATH
5	Thomas Pellham–Holles	1754–6		Duke of NEWCASTLE
6	William Cavendish	1756–7		Duke of DEVONSHIRE
7	John Stuart	1762–3		Earl of BUTE
9	Charles Watson–Wentworth	1765–6		Marquess of ROCKINGHAM
11	Augustus FitzRoy	1768–70		Duke of GRAFTON
13	William Petty	1782–3		Earl of SHELBURNE
14	William Cavendish–Bentinck	1783, 1807–9		Duke of PORTLAND
19	Robert Jenkinson	1812–27		Earl of LIVERPOOL
21	Frederick John Robinson	1827–8		Viscount GODERICH
22	Arthur Wellesley	1828–30		Duke of WELLINGTON
24	William Lamb	1834, 1835–41		Viscount MELBOURNE
27	Edward Smith–Stanley	1852, 1858–9, 1866–8		Earl of DERBY
28	George Hamilton–Gordon	1852–5		Earl of ABERDEEN
29	Henry John Temple	1855–1858, 1859–65		Viscount PALMERSTON
32	Robert Gascoyne–Cecil	1885–6, 1886–92, 1895–1902		Marquess of SALISBURY
33	Archibald Primrose	1894–1895		Earl of ROSEBERY

Kings and Queens

Monarch	Dates		First		Last	Number
George I	(1714)–1727		Walpole		Walpole	1
George II	1727–1760		Walpole		Newcastle	6
George III	1760–1820		Newcastle		Liverpool	14
George IV	1820–1830		Liverpool		Wellington	4
William IV	1830–1837		Wellington		Melbourne	5
Victoria	1837–1901		Melbourne		Salisbury	10
Edward VII	1901–1910		Salisbury		Asquith	4
George V	1910–1936		Asquith		Baldwin	5
Edward VIII	1936		Baldwin		Baldwin	1
George VI	1936–1952		Baldwin		Churchill	4
Elizabeth II	1952–2002		Churchill		Truss	15
Charles III	2022–		Truss			1

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